An endeavour to bridge the acknowledged gap between traditional legal education and legal practic... more An endeavour to bridge the acknowledged gap between traditional legal education and legal practice, Mooting, Appellate Advocacy and Legal Practice (MAALP) was an exercise in ‘experiential education’.1 Designed to develop students’ practical legal skills through a synthesis of academic inquiry and experience, the authors introduced and taught MAALP as a new course in the Faculty of Law at Bond University
The University of New South Wales Law Journal, 2006
Studies in relation to the effect of the introduction of a federal minimum wage (FMW) and increas... more Studies in relation to the effect of the introduction of a federal minimum wage (FMW) and increases in a FMW show that a minimum wage has an adverse effect on levels of employment and clearly indicate that increases in a minimum wage will have disemployment effects. The negative impacts of a FMW are experienced the most by workers whose employment position is already tenuous, those on or close to the minimum wage, in declining industries or in regional areas.
Extract: Let me begin by putting my cards on the table - I do not think Australia needs a Bill of... more Extract: Let me begin by putting my cards on the table - I do not think Australia needs a Bill of Rights. What’s more, I think it would be a bad thing for Australia to have a Bill of Rights. In this article I argue why a Bill of Rights is not necessarily a good thing and in an article
Extract: This is the first in a series of articles that will look at some of the important people... more Extract: This is the first in a series of articles that will look at some of the important people and institutions that are connected to the law and help to make it tick.
An endeavour to bridge the acknowledged gap between traditional legal education and legal practic... more An endeavour to bridge the acknowledged gap between traditional legal education and legal practice, Mooting, Appellate Advocacy and Legal Practice (MAALP) was an exercise in ‘experiential education’.1 Designed to develop students’ practical legal skills through a synthesis of academic inquiry and experience, the authors introduced and taught MAALP as a new course in the Faculty of Law at Bond University
The University of New South Wales Law Journal, 2006
Studies in relation to the effect of the introduction of a federal minimum wage (FMW) and increas... more Studies in relation to the effect of the introduction of a federal minimum wage (FMW) and increases in a FMW show that a minimum wage has an adverse effect on levels of employment and clearly indicate that increases in a minimum wage will have disemployment effects. The negative impacts of a FMW are experienced the most by workers whose employment position is already tenuous, those on or close to the minimum wage, in declining industries or in regional areas.
Extract: Let me begin by putting my cards on the table - I do not think Australia needs a Bill of... more Extract: Let me begin by putting my cards on the table - I do not think Australia needs a Bill of Rights. What’s more, I think it would be a bad thing for Australia to have a Bill of Rights. In this article I argue why a Bill of Rights is not necessarily a good thing and in an article
Extract: This is the first in a series of articles that will look at some of the important people... more Extract: This is the first in a series of articles that will look at some of the important people and institutions that are connected to the law and help to make it tick.
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